-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:47 pm, John Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying:
> Sadly the responders don't seem to have read the linked article he refers > to about the N Things Fixed in Linux which shows that he is anything but > a Linux basher. http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/solved.html actually i have read his other stuff (before i read the current article in fact) and love his bit on changing his company to OSS > Okay now on to the observations: > 3) Okay, so Windows tries to handle this one more elegantly. And they > tend to get the latest drivers for everything cause they are so dominant. > Still, I have never gotten my garden variety HP Deskjet to work with > what M$ thinks is the best driver. Invariably I've either had to use the > install CD from HP or download the latest one from HP's site. XP is terrible at this by all reports i hear from friends in dell (yes they hate the commercial guy too) where, as i have said earlier on this list XP is refered to as eating its own drivers. > that Winblows does right is Help. If we want a wider acceptance of Linux > on the desktop developers have to start writing these things so that the > Help choice leads somewhere useful rather than just an About choice or a > half written, poorly designed and thought out help system. i have noticed that the info for an app is always _somewhere_ on the net, in man pages, etc. but never in help. maybe mandrake needs to start a project where happy users (read us) write current help pages for them to include in upcoming releases. the obvious trouble is that by the time the release is, well, released, the help files we write for older versions are useless. if someone at mandrake can identify what apps will be minor revisions from one release to the next (and therefore likely very similar in interface and not need new help files) maybe it could be done. get busy. :) > 5) He has a point here. Mac OS X is gorgeous with it's screen redraws. > Let's try to get there. (No, I haven't seen KDE 3 yet though I understand > it addresses this to some extent.) some. - -- "I struggle to be breif but manage to be obscure."- Horace shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9MfccBwq+ZwvIN/oRApnlAJ967p3YF8cOQA/XXl2M9lR3W+oFYgCggyyd K0M5d1BKpq3xPpoNwbh7vRs= =8XLH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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